CWS Humanitarian Fought Hunger, Poverty at Home and Abroad

News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, September 24, 2013

As originally published by National Catholic Reporter, 09/21/2013. http://ncronline.org/news/people/church-world-service-humanitarian-fought-hunger-poverty-home-and-abroad I am filled with respect and admiration for the women of my mother’s generation: those born before or during World War II who are now in their 70s. They were (and are) a “transition generation” that, in the 1960s and 1970s, witnessed and experienced great change and upheavals, living lives many …

CWS Disaster Recovery Workshops to be Held in Illinois and Connecticut

News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Day-long workshops on long-term recovery from disaster will be held October 1 in Chicago, October 2 in Lisle and October 4 in Peoria, Ill.  The focus will be on meeting unmet needs of survivors of storms and flooding in April and May whose impact was so severe that 49 Illinois counties received federal disaster declarations. The CWS “Recovery Tools and …

Just a Cup of Milk

News & Updates | Posted Monday, September 16, 2013

As originally posted by Moms Encouraging Moms, 09/23/2013. http://www.momsencouragingmoms.com/just-a-cup-of-milk/ It is such a mundane thing. And really, it can sometimes border on annoying, as I’m totally on to his stall tactics. I mean, a cup of milk about 10 minutes after bed? Come on. Just a widdle biddle milk, Mom? Please? Add a pair of blinking, beautiful eyes and an …

CWS Helps Iowa Couple, Other Survivors of Spring and Summer Storms

News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, September 3, 2013

When Bill Recker and Carma Agan lost their Buck Creek, Iowa, home to flash flooding in June, they would have faced a lonely struggle to recover if it weren’t for the Delaware County Disaster Recovery Committee. With support from Church World Service, that community-based group is “working on multiple fronts with these folks to generate enough support to get them …

A Book About Hunger Can’t Ignore the U.S.

News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, August 14, 2013

The fight against hunger is part of our DNA at CWS, and it is being re-affirmed with a new recommitment in our programs and among our staff. As part of that effort, United Methodist photographer Paul Jeffrey and I are starting work on a book on global hunger – the third of a “humanitarian trilogy,” for Seabury Books, an imprint …

Living by Faith

News & Updates | Posted Friday, August 9, 2013

It has been over three years since the 2010 Haiti earthquake, yet when walking down the streets of Port-au-Prince there are moments when you feel like it just happened. You turn the corner to look over the mountain and see hundreds of blue tents lined up back-to-back. There are still a half million Haitians living in tents.  It’s a heartbreaking …

Fundraising Safari: Hunger Fighters Just Wanna Have Fun

News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Hunger is a serious issue and those of us who work to end it are serious about our mission.  That doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun while doing it! A colleague and I recently staffed the CWS booth at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium held at Purdue University.  Some 5,000 Presbyterians from Alaska to Maine came together for a …

CWS Kits and Blankets Newly Deployed in Five States

News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Recent shipments of CWS Kits and Blankets mean practical comfort for survivors of flooding in Ohio, wildfires in Colorado, tornadoes in Oklahoma, Superstorm Sandy in New York and a series of disasters in West Virginia.  Materials sent by request of local service providers include: 200 CWS Emergency Cleanup Buckets, going to First Christian Church in Mansfield, Ohio, for distribution to …

Celebrate Mandela Day: Engage with the World

News & Updates | Posted Saturday, July 13, 2013

The call to action is simple and compelling: “Whether as an individual, community, business, non-governmental organization (NGO) or a government department, all you have to do on July 18 is donate 67 minutes of your day to doing something good in any way you can. Nelson Mandela gave 67 years of his life to the struggle for social justice. Can …

Celebrate Independence Day: Fight Hunger

News & Updates | Posted Saturday, July 6, 2013

Around the United States communities are celebrating the 4th of July this weekend with fireworks, festivals and parades. Families are coming together for Independence Day cookouts. Except not everyone that gathers this holiday will have enough food to put on the (picnic) table. “In our country, in the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world, the reality …